Live it.
Speak it.
Korean, in virtual Korea
Not from a textbook — from the heart of Seoul. Walk through KoLuv's 3D Hanok Village and learn Korean with live tutors and an AI teaching assistant.
What is
KoLuv?
KoLuv isn't a Korean learning platform — it's a virtual Korea you live in, in Korean. As your own character, you enter the Hanok Village: take lessons with tutors in the classroom, revisit past lessons in the review room, and chat in Korean with friends from around the world at the Gyeongbokgung café. We built it on one belief: language grows in situations, not classrooms.
"Korean doesn't grow in classrooms — it grows in situations. So we built those situations into one village."
What makes us different 2 things
An AI assistant that helps in your language, mid-lesson
While you talk with your tutor, the AI assistant listens in real time. Your screen shows grammar points, examples, and how Korean differs — in your native language. Your tutor's screen shows teaching tips and cultural nuance. Same lesson, different help — this dual-screen structure is KoLuv's patented technology.
Your lesson backdrop is the destination — 360° virtual Korea
Gyeongbokgung today, the Han River next week. Your lesson background is a 360° photoreal panorama your tutor pans around as you explore together. Instead of hearing "this is Gwanghwamun," you learn standing right there — together.
KoLuv tutors are different
Every KoLuv tutor must complete our in-house training program and pass verification before opening a class. We train not just Korean knowledge, but how to teach from the student's native-language point of view.
Application & Credentials
We verify education, certifications (Korean language teaching, etc.), and experience.
KoLuv Teaching Method
Contrastive linguistics basics (native-language pitfalls), AI assistant usage, 360° lesson flow.
Mock Lesson Evaluation
Demo lessons are scored against a rubric; passing earns certification.
Certified Practice + Coaching
Quarterly feedback based on lesson reviews, plus a certified badge.
Meet our certified tutors
Not just anyone teaches here.
This is how KoLuv tutors are prepared
Everyone who opens a class on KoLuv has completed the 25-hour training program over four weeks and passed a mock-lesson review. Knowing Korean and teaching it are different skills, so we start by training exactly where your native language trips you up. Graduation is not the end — that is when ongoing training begins.
25 hours of contrastive linguistics, method, and lesson operation over four weeks.
Scored against a rubric — only those who pass may open a class.
Monthly workshops and quarterly coaching keep the training going.
The 25-hour curriculum
We break down exactly where English, Japanese, and Chinese speakers get stuck in Korean.
Teach through situations, not explanations. Designing relationships and honorifics as scenes.
Layer the dual-screen assistant onto your lesson flow and use 360° locations as teaching tools.
Teach in front of a real learner and get scored against the rubric. Pass, and you are certified.
Certification does not stop at one
Tiers rise with months taught and tutor certification exam results
Program graduate + mock lesson passed
3 months teaching + Tutor Exam L1
6 months teaching + Tutor Exam L2
12 months teaching + Tutor Exam L3
Ongoing training
Continues after graduationOne topic a month — pronunciation, honorific shifts, adult-learner motivation.
We review your recorded lesson against the rubric and set next quarter's goal.
A tutor study group that prepares the promotion exam scope together.
Every AI-assistant and 360° update comes with a session on how to run it.
From booking to class, in five steps
Compare tutors with reviews side by side
A weekly grid shown in your time zone
Free changes & cancellation up to 24h before
Stroll in as your character, or join instantly in the browser
In front of Gyeongbokgung, with help in your language
Prove what you've learned —
the KoLuv Certification Test
Built on your lesson, review, and community activity data, our certification test focuses on real conversation. It measures not grammar scores but "Korean that works in real situations" — honorifics, relationship speech, and handling the moment.
Hangul · greetings · introducing yourself
Shopping · ordering · directions
Casual talk with friends, expressing feelings
Switching honorifics, workplace & elders
Following news & dramas, joining debates
Nuance · humor · speaking indirectly
As your Korean grows,
so does your character
Pick your character when you first enter. Lessons, review, café chats, certification tests — every activity earns XP, and leveling up unlocks items like hanbok, hanok props, and hairstyles. The character you raise in the village becomes your Korean résumé.
Choose from 10 characters · Change anytime at the info center · Levels sync with the certification test
No lesson today?
The village is still open
Free-talk in Korean with learners worldwide at a café modeled on Gyeongbokgung. Joining is free. Tables by level, tables by topic, and surprise tutor visits — when studying alone wears you out, come hang out in the village.
Level Tables
Chat comfortably with learners at your level.
Topic Tables
K-dramas · food · travel — today's topic.
Tutor Time Weekly, planned
Certified tutors join in, for free.
The more you buy, the less you pay
Five pass sizes — the longer you learn, the lower the price per lesson
Converted at ₩1,380 per USD · The cafe and village are always free · Free changes and cancellations up to 24 hours before class
Walk the hanok village in the desktop app
